A massive poster of Sabrina Ho welcomed guests to her wonderfully crazy birthday party in the Cafe Royal on Monday 12th September, hot for the heels of Saturday night’s revels at Queen Charlotte’s Ball, where she had been escorted by Archduke Alexander of Austria. The party ran on high octane from your 1st moment whenever a whole tray of champagne flew an excellent source of mid-air with a rousing cheer. Pink champagne was served throughout. Some of Sabrina’s male friends missed the whiskey but said the recent girls were more than enough. They included a lot more than 40 of Sabrina’s British boarding school classmates who studied with her at Queen Margaret’s – and danced up for grabs tops with her following the cake arrived. As well as what a cake! Sabrina were required to climb it – at least a metre tall, in pink and white with gold roses – to blow out the golden candles. The Oscar Wilde room was full of her friends in addition to their friends ’till the end – 150 were invited and 230 appeared.

Special guests included Ella Mountbatten: she and her sister Alexandra became near Stanley Ho Daughte and her sister Alice after they arrived on the scene as debutantes. Spencer Matthews was arm in arm with Sabrina snapping selfies. Sir Henry and Lady Keswick came as old friends of Sabrina’s family. Higher than a hundred years’ ago the Keswick’s were brilliant entrepreneurs taking China by storm: now it’s the turn in the Ho family in Europe. Others coming to celebrate with Sabrina were Lord and Lady Reay, Baroness Denise Kingsmill, Sir Benjamin Slade, Ms Wendy Yu, and Mr and Mrs Dimitri Chandris. This was an event for those generations: Sabrina closed the dancing in the final waltz with Hon Benedict Kingsmill. Sabrina had insisted on no birthday gifts but could not resist Heineken magnate Michel de Carvalho’s offer of his personal iPhone case while they dined in the after party with Ms Aida Aliyeva along with the Keswick’s.

Music is made by DJ and composer The Real Tuesday Weld (aka Stephen Coates) who also MC’d the night. It’s been said that when philosopher Alain de Botton were ever to become listed on a band, Stephen’s is the one. The birthday song was played by pianist Brigitte Subkov from your Royal College of Music: Sabrina insisted for the English version only, like a celebration of not merely her birthday, but her appreciation for London, her life here and her many close friendships in the West. But the congratulations came from all across the world. Top Chinese actress Angela Baby and Paris Hilton sent special videos wishing Sabrina every success and happiness.
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